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•direct sympathy with the most distant 

 parts of the body ; and that the heart 

 sympathizes with the stomach ; but in 

 what manner such sympathies are pro- 

 duced, or how the morbid and irregular 

 sympathies which occur in diseases are 

 occasioned, we presume not to explain. 

 Yet if Mr. Hunter's opinions of the na- 

 ture of life be true, none of these facts 

 can well be considered as surprising. 



Disorder, which is the effect of faulty 

 actions of nerves, induces disease, which 

 is the consequence of faulty actions of 

 vessels. There are some who find it 

 difficult to understand how similar swellings 

 or ulcers may form in various parts of the 

 body, in consequence of general nervous 

 disorder, and are all curable by appeasing 

 and removing such general disorder. The 

 fact is indisputable. Such persons are not 

 so much surprised, that general nervous 



